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Living With Hippocrates in a Changing Medical World, With Particular Reference to the Patient-Physician Relationship

Author

Kirsner, Joseph B.

Bibliographic Citation

Archives of Internal Medicine. 1992 Nov; 152(11): 2184-2188.

Abstract

My purpose here is to comment on medicine's changing scene from the
perspective of 57 years as a full-time teacher, researcher, administrator, and
especially as a physician still actively involved in the care of sick people.
My conclusions: science continues to supplant empiricism. Today's
multidimensional approach to human illness excels past medical efforts. But
professional skills and technologic advances notwithstanding, medicine also
must renew its traditional humanitarian principles to best serve sick
people.